Hulk

Hulk (2003)

  • 62% of critics liked it
    (227 reviews)

  • 34% of users liked it
    (395,301 ratings)

Ang Lee directs the live-action feature film The Hulk, based on the Marvel comic book created by Stan Lee and illustrated by Jack Kirby. Emotionally stunted Dr. Bruce Banner (Eric Bana) is part of a research team at the University of California at Berkeley. Corporate hustler Glenn Talbot (Josh… More

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PG-13, 2 hr. 18 min.
Directed By
Ang Lee
Written By
Michael France, John Turman, James Schamus
Genres
Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy
In Theaters
Jun 20, 2003 Wide
On DVD
Oct 28, 2003
Universal Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader

    [An] enjoyable summer behemoth.

  • Andrew Sarris, New York Observer

    An interesting effort to give one of the staples of mass entertainment something extra in the way of insight and feeling.

  • Rex Reed, New York Observer

    Big, dopey and crammed with special effects that take the breath away.

  • Peter Rainer, New York Magazine

    Despite the profusion of computer-generated effects, which rousingly bring the green guy to life, I often felt, for better and for worse, that I was watching a comic-book movie reconceived as a piece of serious mythmaking.

  • David Edelstein, Slate

    Unlike your average comic-book blockbuster, The Hulk isn't a bad cartoon. It's a bad modern Greek tragedy.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Michael M


    READ MY DEEP LENGTHY REVIEW LIKE YOU WATCHED THIS DEEP LENGHTY MOVIE. Ang Lee has made a very thoughtful film, he gives up the typical superhero story elements which include mindless repetitiveness of blowing things up and smashing things for no reason and thinks to himself "what… More

  • Matthew S


    It was a refreshing to see the first 45 minutes of a comic book movie establish characters with depth and ordinary struggles in their relationships and careers before putting The Hulk on screen. But it doesn't pay off. This is the ugliest and most tedious "origins"… More

  • Melvin W


    Dr. David Banner: We're going to have to watch that temper of yours.  "Unleash the fury!" Hulk is a movie that is hard to really say whether I liked it or not. I had fun watching Hulk run around, being chased by military helicopters and smashing everything in his… More

  • Alexander D


    If you aren't familiar with the franchise started by Stan Lee's comic book series "The Incredible Hulk", think of this as an intense, fun mashup between DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE and SHREK. I know that sounds a bit disturbing, but really, that's what THE HULK… More

  • Eric A


    Eric Bana as the Hulk? Crap Movie. Even the remake after this movie wasn't up to par. Can't wait for the day a well made Hulk movie comes out.

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